Data Bridge Management creates data hubs to enhance information sharing between organizations. It integrates data sharing and analytic systems through a centralized "Data Bridge" information sharing hub. This reduces losses from threats while saving lives and resources by enabling accurate information access and analysis. However, information sharing faces challenges around communication, access to data across different platforms and formats, and disconnected data "stovepipes". Data Bridge Management's solution is a brokered system that enforces agreements to enable secure access to various structured and unstructured data sources in a centralized way. It has implemented regional resiliency and emergency response hubs as well as proposed technology transfer and supply chain security hubs.

1. Data Bridge Management, LLC
Creating Data Hubs to Enhance Information Sharing
INNOTECH DALLAS
MAY 17, 2012

2. Who We Are
Jay Fraser Woody Williams John Hill
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3. What We Do
Integrated Data Sharing and Analytic Systems
Data Bridge
Information
Sharing Hub
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4. Why We Do It
Reduce losses from fraud, waste, abuse
Reduce Save lives – accurate tracking & cause
of illness, injury, disease
Proactive analysis of
business process/methods
Protect Enhance
Develop intel solutions
Reduce terrorism threat
to our lives infrastructure, and
Save economic/information resources
Enhance coordination of public/private
sectors
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5. Challenges
Information Sharing
Communication
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6. Challenges
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7. Access to Information
Source
Media
Location
Query
Large
Complex
Platform
Distributed
Access Format Security
Even when we know what we’re looking for,
information is difficult to access
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8. Stovepipes
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9. Data Warehouses
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10. Policy & Regulations
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11. Solution
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12. Brokering
ENVIRONMENT
EVENTS
OPERATIONAL
CLIENTS
ACTION
INFORMATION
CREATION
DATABASE
FORMATTED STORAGE
NEED
PRODUCT/
RESULT
INFORMATION
RETREIVAL
INFORMATION
INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS
CLIENTS BROKERING
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13. Administration
Enables access through enforcing agreements
Sample users : Public/ Private Information/Data sources
DATA BROKERING
Org A DATA
SOURCE
DATA
Org B
SOURCE
ADMINISTRATION
Org C DATA
SOURCE
DATA
Org D SOURCEn
Log
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14. Structured Sources
VisuaLinks
Client Operational
Database
JRE Visual Clarity
Server
Tomcat JRE
Operational
VisuaLinks
Client Database
JRE VBase
Operational
Desktop Watchlist Database
VisuaLinks
Client Crawl
Metadata Samples
JRE
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15. Unstructured Sources
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16. Remote Sources
VisuaLinks Operational
Client Database
Server Server
VisuaLinks Operational
Client Database
Operational
VisuaLinks Database
Client
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17. Multi-source Integration
Pattern #1
Pattern #3
Pattern #2
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18. Security
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20. Cases
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21. Regional Resiliency
(Implemented)
Emergency Operations Center is the focal point of:
 Three towns
 Local health care provider system
 Internet provider
 Public Safety
 Critical Infrastructure
Also requires connectivity to adjacent EOCs in event
management and planning
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22. EOC Broker/Hub Example
Local Health Care
Info Broker Client
Info Broker Analytic
Town #1 Client Client
Info Broker Client Adjacent County EOC
Town #2
Info Broker Client
Info Broker
Analytic Clients
Info Broker
Client Client Critical Infrastructure
County EOC
Town #3
Info Broker Client
Internet Provider
Info Broker Client Info Broker
Analytic LE Data
Client Sources
Public Safety (Police/Fire)
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23. Technology Transfer
(Proposed)
Laboratories develop new intellectual property in
pursuit of basic research; once completed, the ability
to leverage the IP for gain is constrained:
 Dissemination of timely information on
inventions from labs to HQ
 Knowledge of technologies available for
government agency use
 Knowledge of technologies available for
licensing by industry
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24. T2 Brokerage Hub
DB
Argonne, Ames, Brookhaven, Idaho, 1
Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Federal
Oak Ridge, Pacific NW, Sandia Agency DB
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“X = N”
DB
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Info Broker
Client
Analytic
Client Info. Brokerage/Data Hub
Data Hub Industry Industry
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25. Supply Chain Security
National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security
(January 23, 2012)
A call for “Institutionalizing information sharing” to improve
efficiencies and strengthen the security
Supply Chain is composed of multiple and disconnected
data sources.
Ensuring supply chain security depends upon providing
timely access and analysis of information from these
disparate sources of information in varying combinations
to simultaneous users.
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26. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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27. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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28. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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29. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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30. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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31. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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32. Supply Chain Security
Mfg. Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace
• Time/Date Stamp
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33. Supply Chain Security
Retailer
Register
Item Query Each Label
or Shipment
Retailer
• E-pedigree
• Track/trace Ability to confirm
E-pedigree
• Time/Date Stamp
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34. Mergers & Acquisitions
Large company acquires “n” smaller companies:
 Years of business records
 Customer lists
 Other documents and records
Requirement for due diligence prior to sale
Need for easy flow of information post sale without
cost and process of reconfiguring hardware/software.
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35. Mergers & Acquisitions
Acquisition #1
Acquisition #2
Acquisition #3
Info Broker Client Analytic Client
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36. Questions & Answers
TCP/IP Agency B
Agency A
Network
 Federated Queries
 Scalable Architecture
 Control stays with Data Owner
 Detailed Logging
 Enhanced Security
 Producers/Consumers Agency C
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